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Mouse Quest: The Search for a Better Input Device

Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler thought he could ditch his mouse and go with a touchier interface. Boy, was he wrong.

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... I ... personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler ... the sacred by a mouse in my life ... with seventy new ways to control the computer to use ... all means amounts ... that don't cut rate around techies online order it for ... here ... from a company called the motion ... it still isn't quite good enough for everyday use that ... more more more screen time is spent with touch based technology ... that operate a finger or even stocks ... so when I got a new desktop computer last month ... if that happens to the last ... it's supposed to bring to the control of the mouth of the best adjuster controls that you find a tablet or smartphone ... but after a few weeks ... I was missing timeouts ... for me in a truck at a slower less precise ... especially on the big monitor ... so I wrestled up all whole bunch of ice was surprised to see how much is the guise of a ball ... some like this Apple Magic Mouse and watched in Talks balanced ... and integrated subtract Hackett buildings on top of a regular ... you can do things left to right with that with your fingers ... without having to blog about but the but ... and my favorite developed and ... designers got a lot smarter about your thoughts ... the trend is going for ... this the value is now sister in a half inches tall ... bookcase or hand all the way on inside ... angel has been played like a regular ... this kind of like a ... tiny amounts ... of pain attached and ... is remarkably tough ... my favorite with fiscal economic Council Micra soft ... but the flop ... with a slightly over ripe for picking up ... the best part about this now says that is designed to mimic the sticker and to not to impress ... so does the stain your hands ... and use ... of controlled the mortgage ... I was competing needs a separate different ... for spending many hours navigating big screen ... I welcome this mouse into my life ...